Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cancer is hereditary in humans, he says, for the mice may be inbred for 15 or 20 generations before cancer becomes part of their physiological heritage. "Life . . . superimposes so many varying circumstances and facts that any hereditary tendency so far detected may easily become swamped by other influences. . . . The risk of having cancer because one or both parents had it is not of practical importance...
Skip Stahley's Freshmen cagers face one of their most important tests of the schedule when they journey to Hanover to match shots with a strong Dartmouth cub quintet. The Feslermen boast a record of 12 wins in 13 starts which they will risk against the "Little Green" today...
Neither naval nor military authorities in the U. S. believe Europe's totalitarian toughies would risk transatlantic invasion. But it is the Navy's job to remind them of the risk. According to latest reports published by the U. S. Navy Department (November 1938), a combined Italo-German fleet would outnumber the U. S. only in destroyers and submarines...
...have so long taken these things for granted that we run the risk of forgetting that vigilance is required to maintain them. I believe your meeting is part of a movement of immense importance and I wish it all success...
...Thompson suggested that flight surgeons describe plane crashes to prospective pilots taking the test. A candidate who gets a glowing report from the haematometharmozograph would be a poor risk, for he is likely "to become unnerved when under stress...